2.2" Soft-Bodied Marrellomorph (Furca) Fossil - Fezouata Formation

Here is a rare and well preserved marrellomorph (Furca mauretanica) from the Upper Fezouata Formation of Morocco. Furca was a soft bodied “marrellomorph” arthropod, somewhat similar to the more common Marrella from the Burgess Shale of Canada. This specimen is nicely centered on a small, unbroken piece of shale and comes with an acrylic display stand.

A paper on these can be found at the link below.

Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type

Marrellomorphs are a group of arthropods known from the Cambrian to the Early Devonian. They lacked mineralized hard parts, so are only known from areas of exceptional preservation, limiting their fossil distribution. The